My church is in search for a preacher, but at the moment, John Mark Niehls has been preaching. On November 11th, he started a 4 week series titled “Called to Glory; Gender in the Eyes of God”. His purpose for this title is simply because traditional/biblical marriage has fallen apart since the roles of men and women have been misunderstood. The world has the wrong idea of who plays what role,and it is very important to understand each role in order to be able to give God full glory. He designed man and woman to work together, each having their own role, so that they can be unified as one and honor God in the way He deserves.
John Mark did an excellent job throughout the four weeks of showing why traditional marriage and gender role is so important. He started off with week one talking about how the world has distorted the designed roles, that control has shifted away from allowing God to lead, and then he went on to mention why it is so important to try and resort back to the traditional ways. In week two, he talked about the different instructions from several different scriptures for each of the roles and the case in which people say the role of men is better than women’s, which is not true under any circumstances. In week three, he covered the role of men and women within a home and what it were to look like if they lived traditionally by how the Bible says; man work outside of the house as a provider and woman works within the home as a helper.
The last week, he wrapped up with how men should treat their wives. The purpose of this series was to persuade the audience to really think about how our world has fallen away from these Biblical views and how we, as Christians, have been influenced by the world and need to reevaluate our own marriages and lives at home.
He presented each one of these points with great confidence and strong posture and used rhetoric several times. He used logos to not only cover the secular view, but discuss how we are able to fix it, why it is important, and how it will make each relationship better. Each one of his points was very reasonable. He did not go off his own knowledge either, but using ethos, you could tell that he really took the time to research it and to back up his points with lots of scripture in order to give trusting credibility. He did a great job at making people feel for what he was feeling(pathos) and I was definitely persuaded. Not only has traditional marriage been something that the world has fallen away from, but many other things within the Bible are not practiced very much anymore either. I know that I personally would like to take this series and apply it in my own future as well as try to stand by many of the other traditional ways of life in the Bible.
John Mark did an excellent job throughout the four weeks of showing why traditional marriage and gender role is so important. He started off with week one talking about how the world has distorted the designed roles, that control has shifted away from allowing God to lead, and then he went on to mention why it is so important to try and resort back to the traditional ways. In week two, he talked about the different instructions from several different scriptures for each of the roles and the case in which people say the role of men is better than women’s, which is not true under any circumstances. In week three, he covered the role of men and women within a home and what it were to look like if they lived traditionally by how the Bible says; man work outside of the house as a provider and woman works within the home as a helper.
The last week, he wrapped up with how men should treat their wives. The purpose of this series was to persuade the audience to really think about how our world has fallen away from these Biblical views and how we, as Christians, have been influenced by the world and need to reevaluate our own marriages and lives at home.
He presented each one of these points with great confidence and strong posture and used rhetoric several times. He used logos to not only cover the secular view, but discuss how we are able to fix it, why it is important, and how it will make each relationship better. Each one of his points was very reasonable. He did not go off his own knowledge either, but using ethos, you could tell that he really took the time to research it and to back up his points with lots of scripture in order to give trusting credibility. He did a great job at making people feel for what he was feeling(pathos) and I was definitely persuaded. Not only has traditional marriage been something that the world has fallen away from, but many other things within the Bible are not practiced very much anymore either. I know that I personally would like to take this series and apply it in my own future as well as try to stand by many of the other traditional ways of life in the Bible.
This is a great summary of this series, Maddie, the way you explained it made me wish I had been able to hear the series myself. I love how you were able to find where he established ethos and could tell he had put a lot of time into the sermon. This is a great series to apply to your future, as well as other traditional ways of life in the bible.
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